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Enzymes in Food Biotechnology

Production, Applications, and Future Prospects

  • 1st Edition - August 23, 2018
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Mohammed Kuddus
  • Language: English

Enzymes in Food Biotechnology: Production, Applications, and Future Prospects presents a comprehensive review of enzyme research and the potential impact of enzymes on the food… Read more

Description

Enzymes in Food Biotechnology: Production, Applications, and Future Prospects presents a comprehensive review of enzyme research and the potential impact of enzymes on the food sector. This valuable reference brings together novel sources and technologies regarding enzymes in food production, food processing, food preservation, food engineering and food biotechnology that are useful for researchers, professionals and students. Discussions include the process of immobilization, thermal and operational stability, increased product specificity and specific activity, enzyme engineering, implementation of high-throughput techniques, screening to relatively unexplored environments, and the development of more efficient enzymes.

Key features

  • Explores recent scientific research to innovate novel, global ideas for new foods and enzyme engineering
  • Provides fundamental and advanced information on enzyme research for use in food biotechnology, including microbial, plant and animal enzymes
  • Includes recent cutting-edge research on the pharmaceutical uses of enzymes in the food industry

Readership

Graduate students, post-graduate students and research scholars along with food scientists working in food, pharmaceutical and biotech industries

Table of contents

1. Introduction to Food Enzymes

2. Microbial Enzyme in Food Biotechnology

3. Enzymes in Beverage Industry

4. Enzymes in Fruit Juice Processing

5. Application of Microbial Enzymes in Dairy Industry

6. Wine Enzymes: Potential and Practices

7. Enzymes in Animal Feed Industry

8. Enzymes in Meat Industry

9. Enzymes for Use in Functional Foods

10. Enzymes as Additives in Starch Processing: A Short Overview

11. Lysozyme: An antimicrobial enzyme in food applications

12. Ligninolytic enzymes: An overview and applications in food industry

13. Hydrolases of halophilic origin with importance for the food industry

14. Fungal proteases and production of bioactive peptides for food industry

15. Application of proteases for production of bioactive peptides

16. Development of Functional food from enzyme technology: A review

17. Current development and future perspective of microbial enzymes in dairy industries

18. Enzymes for Fructooligosacchrides production: achievements & opportunities

19. Anti-biofilm enzymes as emerging technology in food quality and safety

20. Enzyme and bioactive peptides – a strategy for discovery and identification of anti-hypertensive peptides

21. Transglutaminase-crosslinked edible films and coatings for food applications

22. Application of a novel endo-β-N-acetylglucosaminidase to isolate an entirely new class of bioactive compounds; N-glycans

23. Enzymatic production of steviol glucosides by using β-glycosidase and their applications

24. Enzymatic processing of juice from fruits/vegetables: An emerging trend and cutting edge research in food biotechnology

25. Non-Saccharomyces yeasts: an enzymatic unexplored world to be exploited

26. Fructosyltransferases and invertases: Useful enzymes in food and feed industries

27. Nutritional and nutraceutical improvement by enzymatic modification of food proteins

28. Plant-derived enzymes: A treasure for food biotechnology

29. Exploiting microbial enzymes for augmenting crop production

30. Plant growth promoting microbial enzymes

31. New features and properties for fungal cellulases required for bioconversion of agroindustrial residues

32. Ooxylipins and green volatiles: Application of enzymes from plant origin to produce flavours and antifungal aldehydes

33. Role of soil enzymes in sustainable crop production

34. Enzymes in pharmaceutical industry

35. Transforming healthcare system through therapeutic enzymes therapeutic enzymes

36. Enzymes in pharmaceutical industry for β-lactam antibiotics production

37. Enzyme immobilization methods and applications in food industry

38. Enzymes in biosensors for food quality assessment

39. Enzyme engineering, for enzyme activity improvement

40. Biosensors for food quality and safety monitoring: Fundamentals and applications

41. Application of immobilized enzymes in food industry

42. Biosensor: An enzyme based biophysical technique for detection of food borne pathogens

43. Production of food-processing enzymes from recombinant micro-organisms

44. Food enzymes and Nanotechnology

45. Application of Nanobiocatalysts on Food Waste

46. Food enzymes from extreme environments

47. Psychrophilic enzymes: Potential biocatalyst for food processing

48. Enzymes in food industry-friend or foe

49. Future prospective of enzyme technologies in the food industry

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: August 23, 2018
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Mohammed Kuddus

Dr. Mohammed Kuddus. PhD in Enzyme Biotechnology. After completing PhD in Enzyme Biotechnology, he worked in different R&D projects funded by various scientific agencies. Prof. Kuddus’ main research area includes biochemistry, industrial enzymes, waste utilization, extremophiles, microbial and food biotechnology. He has more than 15 years of integrated teaching and research experience and published more than 75 research articles in peer reviewed international journals along with 8 books and 22 book chapters. Also, published 40 abstract at International/ National conferences and symposia and received best presentation awards. He supervised 6 PhD thesis and 12 PG/UG dissertations. He has been serving as an editor/editorial board member for 20 and reviewer for more than 40 international peer-reviewed journals; along with research grant reviewer for scientific body of USA, Italy, South Africa, India and Saudi Arabia. He has also been awarded SERC Young Scientist Project from the Department of Science and Technology, Govt of India; and Young Scientist Project from International Foundation for Science, Stockholm, Sweden.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Biochemistry, College of Medicine, University of Hail, Hail, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

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